http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-links-hacking-scheme-to-iran/
By AP
August 27, 2015
NEW YORK — Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme
targeting Iranian dissidents back to Iran.
A report released Thursday by the Citizen Lab at the University of
Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs describes how the hackers used
text message and phone-based phishing to try to get around the security of
Google’s Gmail and access the accounts of their targets.
The attacks studied by the Citizen Lab were very similar to others
connected to Iranian hackers, the report says.
According to the report, some of the attacks began when the targets
received text messages that appeared to be from Google saying that there
had been an unauthorized attempt to access their Gmail accounts
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